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Sibling Romance in American Fiction, 1835-1900

By:E. VanDette
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9781137287182
eText ISBN:9781137316905
Edition:0
Copyright:2013
Format:Reflowable

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This study posits that the narrative of sibling love as a culturally significant tradition in nineteenth-century American fiction. Ultimately, Emily E. VanDette suggests that these novels contribute to historical conversations about affiliation in such tumultuous contexts as sectional divisions, slavery debates, the Civil War, and Reconstruction.